Powering Your FPGA Applications

FPGAs are widely used in a variety of products due to their many advantages, including short development time, cost effectiveness, and flexibility to reconfigure or update in the field. Many new FPGAs employ advanced technology to achieve low power consumption and high performance. They use a new fabrication process that tends to require a lower core voltage, which extends the supply voltage range and increases current capability. Many FPGAs also have varying power supply requirements for each power rail. These power rails may have a different voltage output requirement, sequencing requirement, and noise sensitivity. Power module devices are ideal for addressing these power supply requirements.

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Redefining the HMI – Going Beyond Touch

The human-machine interface (HMI) is a core element of almost any electronic system that you can think of, enabling the operator to interact with the particular device or item of equipment, in order to execute different functions or to access information through it. In the following article, we will look at how the unquestionable success of touchscreen technology is now inspiring the development of ambitious new HMI mechanisms that can potentially add further dimensions to the user experience.

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Edge computers make AI applications ready for large-scale use

The cooperation between the companies within the S&T Group opens up many new fields of applications. With the IoT Software Framework SUSiEtec from S&T Technologies, Kontron can offer artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for its edge computers from a single source, such as for instance for Visual Inspection. This is where Kontron benefits from its many years of experience as a manufacturer of high-performance, state-of-the-art industrial computers based on the latest processor technology.

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